If "leading from behind" becomes the rule rather than the exception — a plausible assumption given the current inward-looking mood in the United States and cuts in defense spending — European force planners will have to invest in some of these areas.
His latest series, the Soul Guardians, which he started in 2008, explores the interaction between humans, gods and forces of nature, reflecting on man-made and natural disasters: "I first thought about this series 10 years ago, but I was still very much in an inward-looking mood," Mr. Li said.
It's the inward-looking mood that lets Ukip thrive.
Writing on Tuesday, Jones sparked the row when he argued the installation was evidence of an "inward-looking mood that lets Ukip thrive".
For oft when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude, And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the Daffodils.
Wordsworth, lying on his couch "In vacant or in pensive mood", is filled with "a poet's" pleasure and gaity as he remembers the scene and watches it flash "upon that inward eye / Which is the bliss of solitude".
As in her feature, Seimetz achieves images of a dense and inward atmosphere, a visual mood of tangle and haze that fuses with the fierce performances to provide a richly textured and specific sense of place.
Some of the greatest work, from the brushes of such painters as Frans Hals, Jan Steen, and Johannes Vermeer, were painted for these markets, but the greatest of Dutch painters, Rembrandt van Rijn, broke through the boundaries of the group portrait to create works with his own extraordinary mood and inward meaning.
Moreover, the plot is a small and coiled affair, involving a missing child, and the mood is as inward as anything in the annals of Philip Marlowe, with a dose of Marlowe's glum self-bullying, as K investigates not only historical crimes but his own potential presence in the labyrinth of the past.
The mood now was withdrawn, inward-turning; this was Miss Ferrier herself and among English singers, pretty incomparable.
